Incinerator.



'1. GAMON.

INUINERATOR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 10. 1911.

Patented F81). 25, 1913.

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IN'UINERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25,1913.

Application filed July 10, 1911. Serial No. 637,655.

'1 b all whom it may concern.

, Be it known that I, l,no..\[.\s (iAMON, a citizen of the lhntedStates. residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia andState of Iem'isylvama. have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Incinerators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in incinerators, andhas for its object to provide a device of this character in whichcadavers or animal matter may be burned without perceptible odor, and inwhich the least amount of residue or ashes will remain, said residuebeing odorless.

A. further object. of the invention is to so construct the incineratoras to secure complete combustion in order that no visible fumes may passfrom the flue, and such gases as pass from the line have no perceptibleodor.

A further object of the invention is to provide an incinerator having-novel means for mixing the fumes from the cadavers in their passagefrom the. loading chamber over the secom-lary tire and to the line, saidmeans comprising perforated walls, the perforations of one wall beingoff-set from the perforations of the adjacent wall.

Another object of the invention is to provide means for taking care ofthe'expansion and contraction in the walls of the incinerator.

A still further object of the invention is to provide an air inlet andpassage way, said passage way passing over the primary heating orburning chamber so that said air may be heated to the proper degreebefore passing into the burning chamber.

With these ends in view, this invention consists in the details ofconstruction and Figure l, is an end view of the incinerator, one-halfshowing a front elevation, the other half being sectioned away to showthe interior construction. Fig. 2, a reduced longitudinal verticalsectional view, a portion thereof remaining in elevation; and Fig. .5, alongitudinal horizontal sectional view thereof.

In carrying out my invention as here embodied, 2 and 3. represent theside walls and t and 5 the front and rear end walls respectively.

6 denotes the double walled arched roof consisting of the crown 7, anouter roof 8 forming between them an air space or passage way 9 which iscontinued downward through the rear end wall as at 10 and communicateswith the outer atmosphere through the inlets 11, formed in proximity tothe lower edge of said rear end wall. The front end of this air space orpassage way communicates with the loading chamber 12 through the space13 between the crown wall and the front end wall, and the size of thisspace 13 is regulated by suitable dampers shown here as comprisingsliding damper plates 1-1 to which are fastened rods 15, said rodspassing through the front end wall and having damper handles 16 attachedthereto for manipulating said dampers.

The interior of the incinei-ator is divided into a number of chambers bythe lateral partitions 17 ha ring perforations 18 therein, theper'fm'ations' of one wall being off set from the perforations of theadjacent walls. At the rear of the incinerator are built the walls orpartitions 19 and 20, between which is mounted a grate 21 for thesecondary fire. At. the front of the incinerator is built a wall 22between which and the front end wall is placed a grate 23 for theprimary fire. (In these partitions and walls is. built the longitudinalhorizontal partition 24, preferably formed of rabbeted terra-cottatiles. From this partition to the crown wall of the device. are built.the lateral partitions QShaving 'lerforations 26 so that said partitionsare similar to those described for the lower chamber, and thesepartitions are built just above the partition 17. Somedistance forwardof the front partition 25 is built a wall 27 having a passage way 2.there through, at the bottom thereof or lltljtu'tlll the partition 2t.From this description it 1 end thereof, is produced the loading chamber12 herein before spoken of, which is in direct communication with theprimary fire. This loading chamber has two entrances; one a door way 31produced in the front end wall and closed by a hinged door 32, the otherbeing a door way 83 in one of the side walls and preferably closed byslidingdoors 34 which carry brackets 51 having grooved pulleys 35journaled thereto, said grooved pulleys running upon a track 36 embeddedin the side wallof the incinerator. The door 33 is generally used forsmall parts which may be readily carried in small sized cans or buckets,while the front end door way 31 is/used for longer parts or completebodies which placed inthe loading chamber by rolling them upon therollers stationarily mounted in the chamber.

In the loading chamber and against the partition 2? is placed a guard 36to prevent the receptacles containing the cadavers from coming incontact with said partition 2'? which would close the opening 28. Eachof the chambers formed between the lower walls 17 is provided withoutlet openings 37 closed by doors 38, these openings permitting anyresidue to be cleaned from the chambers. The upper chambers formed bythe walls 25 are provided with inspection holes 39 so that a person mayreadily ascertain what is going on within the incinerator.

in one of the side walls below the floor of the loading chamber 12 isformed a bucket cavity it) for the reception of the bucket 41 into whichmay be placed the residue after the-burning is completed. The meeting ofthe rear end wall and the roof is'preferably relied as indicated by P2which will assist in deflecting fumes downward and will. not

hinder the passage of the air.

in the lower chamber 30 adjacent the flue outlet is built a solid wall44 which 0X- tends partway across the chamber 30 to produce a linecheck. The roof is built below the upper edges of the walls, therebyproducing a cavity -15 in which placed sand to prevent radiation of theheat. I

In devices of this character it'is often found that because of the greatheat, the walls expand and contract, thereby loosening saidwalls andweakening the same. I have found that this expansion and contraction maybe compensated for through the tie rods 46 which extendboth andlongitudinally through the walls of the incinerator and through I-beamsat? which laterally lie vertically a ainst the outer surfaces of thewalls. On the ends of these tie rods are threaded the nuts 48 andbetween one 0 said nuts and the Lbcam is placed a helical spring 49which is coiled about the tie rods so that when the walls expand thesesprings will be compressed and as the-walls cool off and contract, thesesprings will force the walls to their normal positions.

The operation of the device is as follows The tires having been run forsome time, the perforated walls become very highly heated and when theentire incinerator has become thoroughly heated, the material isintroduced into the loading-chamber 12. The heated air passing over thematerial causes combustion of is disiiitegratedthe fumes pass off. Thesefumes are carried through the perforated walls where they are broken up,thoroughly mixed and raised to a very iigli temperature, so that as theyare carried, over the secondary fire they will be completely burned, butshould any of them esca e they will be a gain broken up as they asstrouge. the lower perforated walls an because of the heat of these wallscomplete combustion will take place, and that which passes of throughthe flue will have no perceptible odor and will be practicallyinv1sible..

Of course I do not wish to be limited to the exact details ofconstruction as here shown, as these may be v: ried Within the limits ofthe appended claims without; departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new anduseful, is-

l. An incinerator consisting of a housing divided into an upper andlower chamber communicating at their rear ends, said upper and lowerchambers being sub-divided by perfoi'ated partitions for breaking up andheat ing the fumes passing through saidpart-L tions, a primary fireplzfee in commun cation with the upper chamber, a secondary fire placein commui'iication with the lower chamber, and a fine leading from saidlower chamber for carrying off the products of combustion.

2. An incinerator consisting of inclosing walls, said walls having anair inlet therein running from the lower end of the rear Wall to theforward end of the top vall, a damper for controllingthe flow of airthrough said air inlet, a longitudinal horizontal partition dividing theinterior into two compartments, vertical partitions provided withp'erforat-ions for sub-dividing each of said compartments, a fir placesituated at the forward end of the incinerator and having communicationwith the upper compartment, a sec,

,Qndary fire place formed in the lower c0maflixed my signature in thepresehce of two partment adjacent the 1}:531 end (if tfhe insubscribingwitnesses. cinerator'and over Whic passes t e umes, r 1 Y and a, flueleading from the lower compart- IHOMAS GAMON 3 ment at the end farthestremoved'from' the Witnesses:

secondary fire place. J. B. JARDELLA, In testimony whereof, I havehereunto, M. E. Yos'r,

